Re: (ET) Free range still around?

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

This is not an endorsement, but rather a report.  Your mileage may vary!  

Until I sold off my ETs in 2022, I bought parts and supplies from Jim 
Coate 
several times with good results.

We're all used to modern e-commerce.  You whip out your phablet and tap 3 
buttons.  A day later some poor harried driver drops a package on your 
front 
porch, leaps back into his van, pees discreetly in a Gatorade bottle, and 
barrels on to his next delivery, under big brother Bezos's whip.

Free Range Electric isn't that.  It kinda looks like an up-to-date 
web-shop, 
but AFAIK it's really one guy trying to keep track of a large inventory 
with 
no help and apparently lots of other stuff on his personal plate.

I learned to pretty much ignore the website.  Jim has stock that isn't 
listed 
there anyway.  I emailed him with my needs.  Sometimes I had to email him 
again.  No big deal.  Eventually I heard back from him, got a quotation, 
and 
mailed him a check. The goods arrived in 8-10 days, safely packaged.

Jim knows his stuff and has lots of parts.  Buying from him is a step back 
in 
time.  It requires a little patience and persistence.  Just imagine that 
it's 
1978 and your ET is 4 years old.  :-)

David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey

To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it.  Use my 
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